Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Woman Waves And Gestures To Person In The Distance

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationCheyenne, Kansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Kansas

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Woman Waves And Gestures To Person In The Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban moment in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The footage shows the exterior of a white-sided house with a gray shingled roof and bare tree branches against a blue sky. A woman in a patterned dress appears at the front door, waving and gesturing toward someone off-camera in the distance. The scene has a nostalgic, candid quality with natural lighting and the characteristic grain of Super 8 film. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about mid-century American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125881099

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Cheyenne, Kansas, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Kansas home-movie exterior useful for documentary or educational edits needing a brief rural or small-town domestic communication moment.
Period detail: The white horizontal siding, shingled roof, bare branches, and mid-century dress may show everyday residential life in 1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the candid gesture of a woman at a doorway, apparently waving or signaling to someone beyond the camera rather than performing for a formal setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white-sided house, gray roof, dark windows, front doorway, bare tree branches, blue sky, and a woman near the entrance.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight color shift, and contact-sheet framing that add physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, domestic insert, arrival-or-departure beat, or quiet transition in a mid-century memory sequence.
Historical context: The clip gives a modest view of residential architecture, clothing, and informal social signaling without supporting broader claims about the community.
Research note: A visible adult and identifiable residence-like exterior may require likeness and property review separate from copyright or footage licensing checks.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1958 Kansas 8mm home movie, woman waving at house, Cheyenne County residential exterior, or mid-century family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Cheyenne County material, then broader 1950s home and family communication scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Kansas home-movie frame showing a white-sided residential exterior with a gray roof, dark windows, and bare tree branches. — A residential exterior fills the frame, with bare branches crossing the roofline and dark windows below the eaves.

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas frame showing the side of a white house with a gray roof, dark windows, and leafless branches. — The camera holds on the house exterior, emphasizing windows, roofline, and winterlike bare branches.

1958 Kansas frame of a white-sided house exterior with roof shingles, a small dark window, a larger front window, and bare branches. — The house remains centered as the larger window and siding details become more prominent.

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas frame showing a woman in a dress near the front doorway of a white-sided house, appearing to gesture outward. — A woman appears at the entrance area beside the large window, raising an arm as if greeting or signaling to someone off-camera.

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